CriticalThinkingAcademy

 I am sick of bad arguments. So much so, that it's distracting me from other productive things I could be doing. It's not so much bad arguments per se, but the way they get repeated ad nauseum and proliferate throughout the masses of people who fail to see the weaknesses or simply don't want to acknowledge the weaknesses. Also, the way they are wielded while discussing contentious topics; as if they are beyond reasonable doubt and ultimately confirm the broader ideology from which it came. One thing that really bothers me among certain conservatives and Christian nationalists is when they claim that enlightenment values are somehow rooted in the Bible, despite enlightenment thinkers explicitly rejecting biblical principles. They will try to argue that “the Bible or Christianity provided the seeds for these principles to blossom” which to me is hilarious, because it's clear rhetoric that understates the actual total evidence . The claim that Enlightenment values (like in...

Table of Contents Defining Fascism and Definitions in General The Function and Practice of Defining Definition by Enumerating Features and Observed Behavior Philosophical Methods of Defining Typologies and Taxonomies Lifecycle and Developmental Models The Authoritarian Personality Walter Benjamin: Aestheticization of Politics Objective and Subjective Definitions Theory Driven Definitions Marxist Approaches to Defining Fascism Additional Scholarly Approaches to Fascism Definition Quality Implications of Definition Is Trump a Fascist Conclusion This post was inspired by conversations I've had recently with Trump supporters. The question of whether Trump is a Fascist frequently gets brought up, not just within these conversations, but within the broader Ameri...